During one of the snow events, my granddaughter and her best friend Annabelle/Tinkerbelle played in the snow and inspired this journal page for the 21 Day Art Journaling Challenge theme of Faces.
I did a watercolor wash for the background, painted my granddaughter Charlie in watercolor from a photo reference, collaged in a photo of her BFF Annabelle, and added dimensional paint and glitter to finish the scene.
I also had time to do Day 3 of the challenge, Zentangle. I have had some experience with Zentangles, and decided to do something similar to a Suzanne McNeill workshop that I took at Art of the Carolinas.
Basically, I traced a photo I liked from the web, transferred the drawing to the journal page, and then put down a wash of light colors like blue, yellow, turquoise and light red. Next I painted the zebra stripes with a black watercolor marker. After that I divided up all the background space with a pencil, and pencilled in some Zentangle doodles. Once the doodles were in place, I accented them with more watercolor paint in similar colors. Last of all, I found a quotation that I liked and added it with permanent black marker.
My husband called this one "Calm Before the Storm," since we are babysitting for our 2-year-old granddaughter for the rest of the weekend. Sure do love to paint with her!
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